Jennifer Bame, LCSW, Sage Services LLC

05/01/2022

Take the Social Worker Equity Campaign Survey and please share widely:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7S5KL2F

05/01/2022

Sign the petition! : It's time for a SOCIAL WORKER EQUITY campaign!

Friend,

I signed a petition on Action Network telling to It's time for a SOCIAL WORKER EQUITY campaign!

Given the systemic income inequality and onerous working conditions so many social workers now experience, we need to build a robust, action-oriented campaign for social workers now. Through these efforts we expect our national leadership to organize its members and use its resources to develop long-term, collectively focused campaigns directed at all funders, both private and public, that would demand an end to the gross inequities suffered by professional social workers and the communities they serve. (To read our longer statement on these problems, go to: )

Please unite with us by circulating this within your own agencies, schools and groups. Ask them to sign this petition addressed to all national leadership bodies, including NASW, CSWE, ASWB, and SSWR .

We are demanding that NASW and its other leadership bodies form work group action clusters to immediately address and act on the following inequities:
• Replace NASW’s refusal to set a “mandatory minimum income” for BSWs and MSWs with a demand for a starting salary that is set at least ten per cent above the median income levels of each region of the country, and congruent with other Masters- and Bachelors-level health and mental health professionals.

• Revise the Code of Ethics to be aligned with the language and collective spirit of nurses’ and teachers’ associations and unions that boldly states that professional service requires working conditions that support dignity and well-being for the social worker as well as clients and community members.

• Initiate and actively support national and local campaigns such as the “3 for 5” campaign in New York State that is demanding a 3% yearly raise over 5 years so that all people working in social services can have a living wage allowing them to enter and stay within the middle class.

These small steps are meant to jump start a shift in our profession that emphasizes the value in collective action for systemic problems. Such actions replace an unfair over-use of personal self-care as an answer to burnout or expecting policy papers as a substitute for a mobilized membership. This kind of action approach would be similar to those used by far better paid nurses’ and teachers’ associations and unions. By signing, you are taking an important step in signaling that our profession needs a new direction for the problems confronted by clients, community members and fellow professionals alike!

Can you join me and take action? Click here: https://tinyurl.com/swequity?source=email&

Thanks!

We need to build a campaign for social workers now. We are therefore organizing an action campaign directed at all major social work professional organizations. Given the systemic income inequality and onerous working conditions so many social workers now experience, we need to build a robust, actio...

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